Lafayette at Pennsylvania
Saturday, October 22, 1898 Share
Pennsylvania beat Lafayette 32–0. It was their 22nd meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 17–5.
Final
In the newspapers

The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], October 23, 1898, page 3
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PRINCETON BEATS CORNELL GOOD SCORE AND EXCITING GAME OF FOOTBALL. University of Pennsylvania Wins From Lafayette With Score 80 to O-Other Events. New Haven, Conn, Oct. 22.-Yale this afternoon defeated the Carlisle In dams at football, IS to 8. The game was a sensational one. At the end of the first half the score stood only 6 to ), and it seemed alarmingly danger Gus to Yale. The five points to Carl isles credit are due to Quarterback Hudson’s marvellous skill in dropping a goal from the 45-yard line. The trick caused CONSERVATION in the Yale line, and after that the Indians played Yale almost to a standstill for a few min utes. The Carlisle rush line seemed too much for Yale, but the reason of this became apparent when, in the second half, after Yale had changed signals, the Indians found the line nearly al ways impr~ BILE

The age-herald, Alabama, October 23, 1898, page 1
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Penn. Downs LaFayetto Philadelphia. October 22.-The University of Pennsylvania foot ball eleven defeated the Lafayette kckers this afternoon by the score of 32 to 0. Pennsylvania fumbled wretchedly but this was to great extent due to the bad passing of their center an dthe slippery ball. The field was ankle deep with mud and it was almost impossible for the men to get started. Iafayettet could make but little impress sion on Pennsylvania’s line only getting their distance once during the entire game
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Pennsylvania 87% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Lafayette–Pennsylvania gamePennsylvania leads 55–21–4 in 80 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.
Around this game
Lafayette
- Next gameat NavyOct. 29, 1898
- SeasonLafayette in 1898
- ProgramLafayette history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. ChicagoOct. 29, 1898
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1898
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records

